Congrats To The Nobel Prize For Physics Winners......

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54420240
It was a long time coming for Sir Roger, physics legend, well deserved.

[Zacs-Master]

Ah yes, I was referring to them in the subject of celestial mechanics.

[ToraToraTora]

ZM: but you said: ""And the LaGrange point is summink in Star trek. " - shall I get the jelly?

[Peter Pedant]

no no come on
they have space travel and computers in Star Trek - and they are real innit?

come on - got you there "mee auld chine"

[Peter Pedant]

TTT - if there were a Nobel for Boolshot
you wd me a repeat nominee

and that is not fiction!

[Zacs-Master]

I did say that. I didn't say it was made up tho. Star trek was the first thing that sprang to mind when PP mentioned them.

I thought, over our Brexit discussions that I'd trained you to spot things which were factual but not necessarily portrayed the whole picture (i.e. subtleties), but it would seem not to be the case.

Ah well.

[Peter Pedant]

celestial mechanics

is that the one who has in the first edition 1780( theorie de mechanique celestial) a prediction of blach holes

which in the third 1802 he has taken out as thought better of it. The idea being that light by 1800 was clearly not particulate ( newtonian and therefore affected by gravity) but wave form ( which rather obviously wasnt affected by gravity)

Ay am trying to lift this discussion above the level of abuse

[ToraToraTora]

you've trained me ZM in ways you cannot comprehend.

[Zacs-Master]

Marvellous. Shame I failed on the subtleties tho, as it seems to be tripping you up, still.

[Mamyalynne]

Well done to Sir Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.

[ABSpareEditor]

Please keep on topic.

[Peter Pedant]

Maffmen can get a Nobel if they field it as something else....
Penrose here
Geim ( maff Manchester ) got one in chemistry for the new Carbon chemistry - never went near a test tube

and Nash ( beautiful mind) for economics there was even a movement readers that he shouldnt because he was a holocaust denier ( and also a mad as a nine bob note)

and what will the Nobel committee say tomorrow?

[jim360]

"...a lagrangian is a matrix useful in advanced mechanics..."

As a matter of pedantry, a Lagrangian is *not* a matrix, it's a scalar quantity.

[ToraToraTora]

Ok you've managed to destroy a thread in Science PP, pat yourself on the back, well done.

[jno]

what's the problem? PP's anecdotes are interesting and the thread is still going strong.

[Mamyalynne]

Report the thread if you think it's been ruined - it hasn't.

[ToraToraTora]

I did and the report was removed, PP is exempt from the rules.

[jim360]

If posting incoherent waffle were against AB rules the site would be empty tomorrow :P

[Zacs-Master]

He hasn't broken any rules, Tora, whereas......

Anyway, the introduction of Lagrangian points has certainly given your thread a life it didn't have previously.